Department of Politics and International Studies

Comparative politics of the Middle East

Course Code:

15PPOC026

Status:

Course Not Running

Unit value:

1

Taught in:

Full Year

The aim of this course is to offer students with a wide range and variety of backgrounds the opportunity to engage and grapple with the most important debates in the study of the politics of the Middle East and to locate and contextualise theMiddle East within wider debates and scholarship of world politics. The themes studied include an examination of the role of the state in the politics of the region, the meaning of citizenship, the processes of democratization, social and politicalmovements, revolutions, and the role of ideologies, gender, culture, and militarism in the politics of the Middle East.

Objectives and learning outcomes of the course

Upon the completion of this course students should be able to

critically discuss and analyse series of key issues in the politics of the post-1950 Middle East

examine and take position in the debates in which social scientists have engaged to address these key issues

communicate this understanding while synthesising knowledge from various sources

organise their research objects, categorising materials and sources and being able to produce clear outlines of this research

wed their empirical research to abstract conceptualisation and sophisticated and theoretically informed analysis.